Terrestrial and Human Response to Rapid Climate and Land Use
Change in the Arctic
Arctic Community Meeting Space
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
San Francisco Marriott, Pacific Room A, San Francisco, California
18 December 2008, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
For further information, please contact:
Maribeth S. Murray
Human Dimensions of the Arctic System (HARC) Core Office
Email: ffmsm [at] uaf.edu
To view the meeting room schedule, please go to:
http://www.arcus.org/communitymeetings/AGU2008/index.html
The Human Dimensions of the Arctic System (HARC) Core Office will hold
an open meeting to discuss Terrestrial and Human Responses to Rapid
Climate and Land Use Change on Thursday, 18 December 2008, from 4:00pm -
6:00pm. The meeting will take place in the Arctic Research Consortium of
the U.S. (ARCUS) community meeting room at the fall meeting of the
American Geophysical Union (AGU), to be held 14-19 December 2008, in San
Francisco, California. The meeting room is located at the San Francisco
Marriott, Pacific Room A. The Marriott is one block from the AGU
sessions at the Moscone Center West. To view an online map, please go
to: http://www.cmrhousing.com/agu_3u/Map.aspx.
Following from the Arctic Observation Integration Workshops
(http://www.arcus.org/search/meetings/2008/aow/) in Palisades, New York
(March 2008) it has become clear that the 2007 sea-ice event and the
subsequent similar loss in 2008 have caused heightened concern regarding
how quickly and in what ways the terrestrial areas of the Arctic, and
particularly the wildlife and people who live in these areas, will be
affected by a rapidly changing climate.
The purpose of this HARC meeting is to develop a coordinated dialogue
among programs and efforts that are addressing the linked human and
terrestrial response to rapid change and the cumulative effects of rapid
change in the Arctic. Discussion will focus on the human response to
rapid changes occurring in the linked arctic atmospheric-ocean-land
system. This meeting will build on the Palisades meeting by addressing
research activities that are directed towards the observation and
understanding of responses to arctic change in the human/terrestrial
system. Among important topics that will be considered are:
- Linkages among changes in seasonality and the human/terrestrial system,
- Cumulative effects of land cover and climate changes in the Arctic,
- Effects of extreme weather events,
- Socio-economic impacts and responses to change,
- Impacts and response of resource development, and
- Response and effects of demographic changes in human and animal
populations.
Participation from all national and international programs involved in
research that addresses these and other related human/terrestrial
responses to climate and land use changes in the Arctic are invited (for
example, those conducted through NSF, NOAA, NASA/NEESPI, SSHRC, NSERC,
EU Commission and others, and from those contributing to specific
research programs and projects, including SEARCH, NSSI, ArcticNet, IPY
endorsed initiatives, NEESPI, IGBP, IHDP, IPS, etc.).
The meeting is currently capped at 32 participants, due to space
limitations. If you wish to be included please contact Maribeth S.
Murray at the HARC Office: ffmsm [at] uaf.edu.